' response to madison after washington got it. thank you, you laughed so i got it wrong. he wrote that congress is response to the inaugural address in washington by the sum thought medicine was so good at this kind of thing he asked him, madison, to write washington's response after congress. [laughter] it's hard to imagine how his voice was at going off every wall. i'm not sure there's been another time in history when one man has been so influential at the beginning of his administration, the way medicine was in the beginning with washington. >> talk about the constitutional convention. there were battles over various provisions in the constitution. we ended up with article one, article one, two and three, and it took a long time, many, many hours and days to put it all together. but can you sites are the specific compromise, most important provision that they argued about and ultimately were able to resolve the? >> it was the thing we all learned in history books about the big states and the small states, and, of course, the b